It’s a cold, blustery day here in southeastern Massachuetts and the five-vehicle caravan which is heading down Route 28 towards Buzzard’s Bay is packed with Equal Exchange staff bundled up in our hoodies, head scarves, boots and rain gear. It’s a field trip and we’re visiting some of our newest farmer partners… but this time no passports, visas, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Domestic Fair Trade’
Tales from the Bog
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Domestic Fair Trade, organic cranberries on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fair Trade Minimum Prices for Small Farmers Criticized: And a $500 Billion* Bailout for the Financial Industry?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Domestic Fair Trade, Fair Trade, Farm Aid, Federation of Southern Co-operatives, food crisis, small farmers on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m dashing off to the Farm Aid Concert in Mansfield, where Equal Exchange is the official coffee sponsor, so I’ll have to be brief. But I wanted to thank everyone who responded to Nick’s posting, “Co-operatives: The Democracies of our Economy“, with all of those thoughtful comments. I just wanted to add one more voice [...]
Conventional or Organic Almonds: Which would you choose?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Tree Co-operative, Domestic Fair Trade, organic almonds, small farmer co-operatives on September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Big Tree Almonds, located in the Central San Joaquin Valley, is the only organic almond co-operative in the state of California—the only state in the U.S. where the nuts are grown. The co-operative is Equal Exchange’s first trading partner for organic almonds. From the Equal Exchange website: The farmers who would one [...]
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